Tribal Neglect and Limitations of Budget-Centric Approach to Development

Central region of India, despite being resource rich, inhabits the poorest people who have not benefited from social and economic development to the same extent as people in other region

Multiple reasons for vulnerability of the tribal communities

They are poor, asset less and illiterate compared to the general population

Inability to negotiate and cope with the consequences of their forced integration with the mainstream economy, society, cultural and political system, from which they were historically protected as the result of their relative isolation

Post-independence dams and development displacement, loss of livelihoods, land alienation on a vast scale, hereditary bondage.

Problems of tribals

Land alienation

Indebtedness

Relation with forests, and Govt monopoly over minor forest produce

Non implementation of the Forest Rights Act 2006

Ineffective implementation of PESA for schedule V areas

Involuntary displacement

Shifting cultivation

Poor utilisation of government funds

Poor delivery of government programmes

There schemes concerning tribals are controlled by different ministries.

Ministry of Tribal Affairs concentrates only on its programmes like grants to NGOs, scholarships etc.

Systemic change is needed in the way MOTA and state tribal departments function

Their approach must change from simply spending their own budget through narrow departmental schemes to knowledge based advocacy with other concerned ministries/departments

Providing an improved environment for HR in the country

Social justice is predicated on the idea that a society can be regarded as egalitarian only when it is based on principles of equality and solidarity, where human rights are valued and the dignity of every individual upheld

The right to social justice may be said to be the right of the weak, aged, destitute, poor, women, children and other underprivileged persons, to the protection of the State.

It is the balancing wheel between haves and have notes

DPSP

Social justice has become a pressing issue especially in the larger context of globalisation

Human rights form the foundation of the society, and without its observance, society would disintegrate

The basic Charter of Human Rights is found in Magna Carta, American War of Independence and French Revolution

Universal Declaration of HR adopted in 1948 by UN which included both civil and political rights as well as economic, social and cultural rights

Declaration of Right to Development, 1986

Defined development as a composite right where all human rights – civil, political, economic, social, and cultural as well as other rights such as the rights of children and women are realised.